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More than one-third of Canadians voted strategically in last week’s federal election to stop another party from winning, a new poll suggests. Thirty-five per cent of respondents to the Leger poll said their decision about which party to support took into account the chance that their vote might prevent another party’s candidate fromRead More →

The European Union and Germany say they appreciate the “continuity” in Canadian climate change policy that will result from the federal election result. The Liberals won a minority mandate in Monday’s vote after a campaign that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau framed as a fight over protecting the planet from theRead More →

Canada has decided not to join the European Union, the United States and some of its most important partners in the Lima Group in refusing to recognize the official result of Bolivia’s presidential elections, in which incumbent Evo Morales claimed to have been re-elected to a fourth consecutive term. InRead More →

Former Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale says his party has a lot of urgent work to do to prove to western provinces that the Trudeau government understands their needs. Goodale, who has served as an MP on and off since 1974, lost his Regina-Wascana seat on Monday night as the LiberalsRead More →

Forty-one days. It was the length of the latest tour of 80’s rockers Tears for Fears. And the purported duration of a religiously-motivated fast by a Nigerian University student. (He ended up in hospital.) It’s exactly how long a Florida man spent in custody after a sheriff’s deputy mistook aRead More →

Green Leader Elizabeth May said in a release Sunday that if her party is elected Monday, it will make sure this is the last federal government in Canada chosen by the first-past-the-post system. May said a Green government would launch a citizens’ assembly with a mandate to make recommendations toRead More →

Cameron Ortis, the senior RCMP director accused of preparing to leak sensitive information, will have to wait a few more days to find out if he’ll be released on bail. After a two-day hearing, the justice overseeing the case said he needs more time to reflect on the evidence and willRead More →

On Wednesday morning, with less than two weeks remaining in the federal campaign, Andrew Scheer worried aloud about MS-13, the notorious Salvadoran-American criminal gang. The Conservative leader stood near Roxham Road in southern Quebec, where asylum seekers crossing from the United States have forced the federal government to establish an unofficialRead More →

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is registered with the U.S. Selective Service System, the federal agency that administers that country’s military draft, a party spokesperson confirmed Friday. Scheer confirmed Thursday that he is a dual Canada-U.S. national — his father was born in the U.S. — but said he is in the process of renouncingRead More →

New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh sat down with five undecided voters from across the country to answer questions about how he would tackle the issues that matter most to them. Thursday’s exchange was the fourth and final instalment of The National Presents: Face to Face with the Federal Party Leaders — aRead More →